I met Marlon Reis in a writing workshop at the University of Colorado. I believe it was the spring semester of 2001. He was a shy, skinny 19-year-old with pretty skin, sweet eyes, and big feet. He had a profound proclivity for Victorian literature amore --------------------------------------------------

On December 16, U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker said he expects to keep a trial challenging California's ban on same-sex marriage on track for January 11, 2010. Walker will preside over a no-jury trial, expected to last several weeks, of a lawsuit in which two same-sex couples claim the marrimore --------------------------------------------------

Love Takes Over, a nationwide initiative which calls on citizens to write to their local newspapers about marriage equality during the week of January 3-9, is gearing up for a campaign that its organizers say could make a difference in the way people talk about same-sex marriage.

This prehistoric specimen, Bill James, is a Mecklenburg County (N.C.) commissioner. At a recent public meeting in Charlotte, commissioners debated whether to offer domestic-partner benefits to county emplmore --------------------------------------------------

As reported in last week's SGN (December 18), when Gay human rights activist Walter Trochez was murdered by suspected agents of the Honduran government, he was documenting the regime's attacks on the local LGBT community.

In an open letter he released on November 16, Trochez namore --------------------------------------------------

The Washington State Council of Fire Fighters (WSCFF) Burn Foundation held a signing of their newly released 2010 firefighters calendar at Purr on December 16. Patrons got to mix and mingle with the firefighters, get their calendar autographed, and buy a T-shirt or wristband to support the WSCFFmore --------------------------------------------------

An evangelical church in Denver, CO, known as Highlands Church, recently opened its doors to LGBT people. Members of the congregation are now finding 'open and affirming' to be synonymous with 'evangelical.'

"Our position is not one of lenience, but a matter of justice,"more --------------------------------------------------

Anti-Gay Marriage Ads Hit D.C. Public Transportation
A freedom of expression battle is underway in D.C. as Stand for Marriage D.C., the most outspoken voice against D.C.'s recent legalization of marriage equality, has placed ads on the District's Metrobuses urging that citizens be allowed to vote on civil rights.

Full Equality Now DC wants the ads removed by the Washington Metr more

UK registrars cannot shun civil partnerships
England's Court of Appeal ruled December 15 that a Christian marriage registrar who was disciplined for refusing to register Gay civil partnerships was not a victim of religious discrimination.

Northwest NewsPRIDE FOUNDATION
& GSBA OFFERING
$300,000 IN SCHOLARSHIPS
FOR 2010-11
Pride Foundation and the Greater Seattle Business Association (GSBA) are accepting applications for 2010-11 scholarships to eligible LGBT students and straight allies. Currently, $300,000 in scholarship money is available during this cycle. Pride Foundation along with the GSBA offers 50 different more

The FBI announced on December 17 that it would use the authority it received under the newly passed Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act to investigate a kidnapping and sexual assault in Big Bend, Texas, as a possible anti-Gay hate crime.

Like many Lesbians, Gay men, Bisexuals or Transgender people, I came out of the closet with the help of Gay books and Gay bookstores. Though we didn't have a Gay bookstore in Miami when I came out in the early 1970s, I took advantage of the mail-order services provided by the newly more-------

Charles DeVoe remembers: "When I discovered the Madison Tavern, I was so joyful! Down the street was the old burlesque Rivoli Theater, which was turned into a children's theater, and later an adult theater that produced plays like Tobacco Road and Dark at the Top of the Stairs. I used tomore-------

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